Japan's LDP aim of single-party lower house majority in sight, Nikkei poll says
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- Japan's ruling LDP could gain a majority of the 465 seats in the Feb. 8 lower house election, up from 198, according to a new Nikkei poll conducted immediately after the election announcement.
- The Centrist Reform Alliance -- newly formed by the Constitutional Democratic Party and Komeito - is expected to decline from its pre-campaign total of 167 seats.
- With about 10 days remaining until the election, more than half of the single-seat constituencies are competitive, and the landscape could shift considerably as the election nears.
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